back to article Adobe’s e-signature service to go bi-cloud: Adds Azure to AWS

Adobe is taking its “Sign” electronic signature service into Microsoft’s Azure cloud, in addition to its current arrangement that sees the service run in Amazon’s cloud. Sign is an electronic signature service that allows users to sign documents by scrawling their sign on a screen or with a mouse, then using that signature in …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Just the Fax, Ma'am

    As is true with so many of Adobe's "improvements" on PDF, I've never managed to make the e-sign thing work. Inevitably we wind up printing, signing, and faxing the form back.

    And don't get me started on fillable forms that can't be saved without losing the data you've entered.

  2. TheVogon

    Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.

  3. revilo

    quid pro quo

    Does anybody seriously believe that this gives e-signatures

    "the same legal force as a pen and ink signature". Really?

    The track record of Adobe in DRM is miserable. With watermarking

    or print restrictions, it is even pathetic. There

    was a time, when a simple unix "convert", a OCR or print to a file would remove

    restrictions. Still today searching for "removing encryption from PDF" gives

    many methods which work. Having e-signatures stored on multiple clouds

    does not convince. It might add a "performance boost" but also complexity

    and less security and accountability. What immediately explains the spin is

    that "Adopting Azure" gives Adobe a "quid pro quo" for Office integration.

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